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China announces no more foreign coal plant building EPA will finalize rules to faze out HFCs. Couple pieces of somewhat good news. https://www.google....

I mentioned why there’s controversy. The controversy has been manufactured. Just as the “controversy” about smoking and cancer was manufactured by tob...

Right, that’s what’s happening. :lol:

:rofl: Another anti-vaxx troll.

So pushing for vaccines is "nuanced"? OK, so the US is nuanced as well -- just with far more pushback from hysterical anti-vaxxers. Got it. That's lik...

Climate change denial.

One's a climate denier and the other either is one or tries to sound like one. So don't expect too much.

We do know. This is one of the many claims that anti-vaxxers often use. In the "long run" we're all dead, as Keynes once said. 6 billion shots given, ...

For anyone still keeping up with this bill (arguably the most important news story there is), what do we think will happen here? A watered down versio...

Unless you've been living in a cave somewhere, this information is readily available. Perhaps you missed the latest IPCC report as well. Made some new...

We do know the truth about climate change, with as much certainty as we can know about anything. It's now easy to see all around us, and to anyone who...

:broken: I hold no contempt for you. If I did, I wouldn't bother talking to you at all. I don't think you're inferior to me -- I think you're wrong. Y...

The issue which was being discussed was whether laypeople, knowing nothing else but that high consensus levels existed among experts, should go with t...

I don't feel any of that. Your projections are your own.

About 96% of doctors in the US are vaccinated, with half of the rest willing to be vaccinated. And this was back in June. There is an overwhelming con...

We weren't talking about what happens on the ground between doctors and patients, so this is irrelevant. Only for those like you who wish to change th...

You touch on a number of fascinating and related (but apparently disparate) topics: flow, Buddhism and meditation, and drugs (MDMA). All of these happ...

Thanks to people like you.

The capital of Massachusetts isn’t Albany, it’s Boston.

Do you really read anything before responding? I didn’t bring up whether the vaccinated can spread the virus at a lower rate or not in the post you’re...

Because it’s been covered by numerous people numerous times. I’m not doing it again simply because you refuse to take 15 minutes and read. It has. Ant...

Did you stop for a second and think: “Maybe others — many others — have asked this question?” Apparently not. If you did, you’d find answers on an int...

That’s not the “actual position,” except in your imagination. Degree of consensus, like degree of experimental confirmation, like the degree of corrob...

Love the science post link. That’s hilarious.

I think that’s the underlying problem here, yes.

I’m talking about vaccine recommendations. But what false information are you referring to? “Early on,” when circumstances were changing rapidly, it’s...

It’s always possible. It’s possible that Noah’s flood is responsible for all the world’s fossils too. So what? Number of emotional reasons, as I made ...

Yes, we’re educating people poorly. Now every joe blow out there thinks he’s doing god’s work by “thinking for himself” and “questioning authority” — ...

Me neither, since he doesn’t believe consensus means anything. So there’s no sense explaining, empirically, WHY this is the case. Sorry, but I really ...

Complete and utter fabrication. That’s what kind of point it is. Should a LAYMAN trust the majority of experts over a minority? Yes, he should, if thi...

In fact that’s exactly what you’re doing, which I pointed out several posts ago.

No, not with a conclusion, with a truth. A truth which you seem hellbent on diverting the conversation from. We start from facts and then we try to ex...

On the contrary, it is indeed an empirical question. I never said otherwise. We can get into WHY it’s a better choice to go with the overwhelming cons...

Of course not. You yourself stated “both sides” are generally ignorant, which I agree with. This isn’t a ridiculous contortion— people simply go with ...

It is a matter of trust, yes. A large part of the country -- 30 or 40% maybe -- go with the 3% who dissent on climate change (actually less than that,...

Sadly, it appears so. Which basically means there's no reason to go with the overwhelming scientific consensus over anything else -- because, who know...

No. That's not the question. Issue "X" is an abstraction; what I'm asking about is a specific real-world example. You can't answer that simple questio...

This from someone who rejects the idea that overwhelming scientific and medical consensus is the correct choice for a layperson. You have no idea what...

:up: Mostly it’s the former, because they too know very well that going against the overwhelming international consensus looks bad.

I'll pose this again: Should laypeople go with the 97% consensus on climate change? Why or why not? In my view, the answer is obvious -- not because i...

No, it hasn't. What you mentioned is not what I was talking about. What I was talking about involved a hypothetical consensus of experts (in this case...

No, because a study has never been done about this. I'm talking about one instance being analyzed by 100 umpires. If 97 say it's a strike, I'd go with...

A distribution of individual umpires. First, this group will perform better than others, as experts. So betting on them as a group instead of non-expe...

First of all, by what metric are you judging "intelligence" by? The IQ distribution? In which case, this is not the general population but a group of ...

No, they aren't new. And they're not theories.

If it was a trending item, there seems to be a coordinated effort to "dislike" almost anything from mainstream news that trends. You see it in every n...

You're right -- my last statement wasn't clear, but I was referring more to the issue of birth control and blood clots which was raised by Baker.

I think that had to do with blood clots, and was shown to be mistaken. Excuse the men for what?

I haven't seen any evidence of this. If it's true, then women who are taking hormonal contraceptives have to weigh what those chances are. The hospita...

“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like adminis...